Roots and Correspondence: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew
| dc.contributor.author | Ussishkin, Adam | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Maye, Jessica | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Miyashita, Mizuki | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-01T19:31:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-01T19:31:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/227293 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Modern Hebrew exhibits a derivational process known as Denominai Verb Formation (DVF) whereby a base form, usually a noun, may become a verb. This process has been analyzed by several researchers (Bat-El 1994, Gafos 1995, Sharvit 1994) but to date a comprehensive, principled account has not been proposed. In this paper, it is my aim to present such a principled account of DVF, within Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993). This account crucially relies on the consonantal root, arguing against the proposal of Bat-El (1994) that the root plays no role in DVF. In addition, I propose to capture the well known effects of left-to-right spreading attested throughout Semitic (McCarthy 1979, 1981, et seq.) using a new form of Anchor constraints. These new Anchor constraints will be useful in accounting for cases of consonant doubling, which is attested in a subset of Modern Hebrew denominai verbs. Finally, I show that Bat-El's (1994) arguments against the consonantal root can be recast as reasons to adopt a separate dimension of correspondence relations in the analysis: namely, the dimension of Output-Output Correspondence, following work of, e.g., Benua (1995, 1997) and Burzio (1996). | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Proceedings of the 4th Annual Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Coyote Papers | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Proceedings of SWOT IV | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Arizona Phonology Conference Vol. 6 | |
| dc.subject | Optimality theory (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grammar, comparative and general -- Phonology | en_US |
| dc.title | Roots and Correspondence: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | University of California, Santa Cruz | en_US |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 53044576 | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-26T16:06:17Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Modern Hebrew exhibits a derivational process known as Denominai Verb Formation (DVF) whereby a base form, usually a noun, may become a verb. This process has been analyzed by several researchers (Bat-El 1994, Gafos 1995, Sharvit 1994) but to date a comprehensive, principled account has not been proposed. In this paper, it is my aim to present such a principled account of DVF, within Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993). This account crucially relies on the consonantal root, arguing against the proposal of Bat-El (1994) that the root plays no role in DVF. In addition, I propose to capture the well known effects of left-to-right spreading attested throughout Semitic (McCarthy 1979, 1981, et seq.) using a new form of Anchor constraints. These new Anchor constraints will be useful in accounting for cases of consonant doubling, which is attested in a subset of Modern Hebrew denominai verbs. Finally, I show that Bat-El's (1994) arguments against the consonantal root can be recast as reasons to adopt a separate dimension of correspondence relations in the analysis: namely, the dimension of Output-Output Correspondence, following work of, e.g., Benua (1995, 1997) and Burzio (1996). |
